Dust to dust, jelly to jelly

By Barry Fox

Julia Camps and Xavier Gutierrez of Andorra worry about funerary urns, the containers that hold the ashes of a cremated body (GB 2375519). Throwing an urn into the sea, or leaving it up a mountain, is antisocial, they say. And discarding it with the trash is a slight on the dead person’s memory.

The answer, they say, is a biodegradable urn made from gelatin. Kept warm and dry on a shelf at home, the urn lasts indefinitely. It looks golden, rather like amber. But when the time comes to throw it into the sea, or lay …

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